Новини за тегом «Reforms»

The meeting between President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde will bring Ukraine closer to the implementation of the pension and land reforms. Director of the IMF Communications Department Gerry Rice said this at a press briefing in Washington.

The British Government has allocated 20 million pounds for peacebuilding projects and humanitarian needs of Donbas, and another 30 million pounds will be given to Ukraine this year to support the implementation of reforms. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the UK to Ukraine Judith Gough said this at a round table meeting in Kyiv.

NATO has taken into account the decision of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to resume the strategic course of the state towards accession to the North Atlantic Alliance, Ukrinform reports citing NATO headquarters.

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has approved a draft law that allows implementing a reform of the pension system in Ukraine. Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman said that such decision was made at the Government’s meeting on Wednesday, Ukrinform reports.

The reforms in Ukraine are even more ambitious than in some developed countries of the Western Europe. Former prime minister of Denmark and ex-NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said this in an interview with Ukrinform news agency.

The Government of Ukraine plans to organize the effective sale of the state-owned enterprises and to allow the circulation of farm lands between the individuals, Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman announced at the Cabinet’s meeting, Ukrinform reports.

The World Bank is ready to support the Government of Ukraine in carrying out the necessary reforms and to consider the possibility of new targeted programs for financial support. World Bank’s Vice President Kyle Peters said this during the meeting with Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman, the Government’s press service reports.

The World Bank forecasts Ukraine’s economic growth in 2017 if the country continues the process of implementing reforms, Satu Kahkonen, the World Bank Country Director for Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine said on Thursday.

Ukraine showed significant progress in the reform process in 2016, but the transformational changes will be successful only when citizens feel the positive results, Peter Wagner, Head of the Support Group for Ukraine at the European Commission, said at the international conference "Fair of projects ideas in support of reforms in Ukraine" in Brussels on Wednesday, Ukrinform reports.

European Commission (EC) Chairman Jean-Claude Juncker has said that the second tranche of EUR 600 million of the macrofinancial assistance of the European Union (EU) could be provided to Ukraine in coming weeks, after the government files a bill regarding the moratorium on exports of timber to the Verkhovna Rada.

EU foreign ministers at the EU Council meeting in Brussels on February 6 will assess the reform progress in Ukraine over the past year and discuss the possibility of strengthening the effectiveness of the support on the part of the EU.

The World Bank has left unchanged its forecast for economic growth in Ukraine for the next three years, and it noted the progress in the implementation of reforms, in particular in the system of public finance, debt management, energy and banking sectors.